Tag Archives: societal impact

The epidemics is locking down, either by Government imposition or by people’s fear, whole Countries around the world and therefore you would expect that those companies that have leveraged the cyberspace to connect with brick and mortar services would suffer from the impossibility to deliver. Indeed TripAdivisor (25% jobs cut), …

LAT has been a growing trend over the past few years. LAT stands for Living Apart Together and refers to couple in a stable relation that for any of a number of reasons choose to not live in the same house (some are stretching the LAT also to couple using …

Google glass were met with curiosity but eventually raised strong opposition for their potential intrusiveness, a omnipresent Peeping Tom, to the point they were banned from several places. Oculus Rift are cumbersome and surely not suitable for moving around. True augmented reality glasses, affordable and seamless for a mass market …

I received this articulated comment from Derrick de Kerckhove that I find thought provoking and I am pleased to share it here, along the sequel on Personal Digital Twins in the epidemic context. Regarding both the viral threat of Covid-19 and the haphazard regulatory reactions of the world’s governments, the …

Sharing Economy The Digital Transformation creates an infrastructure based on bits. This infrastructures and the characteristics of bits, easy of replication, transport, access, manipulation makes it an ideal infrastructure to share resources. If you look for a moment at telecommunications you can see how the progressive dematerialisation of resources has …

Smart cities Cities are basically existing and organised through and around infrastructures. The more efficient these infrastructures the better off is the city, the business and the citizens quality of life. The digital transformation changes the way infrastructures operate and can be monitored but, most importantly the digital transformation create …

Societal changes will happen slowly over a few decades and possibly they won’t be noticed till one reaches a point when looking back at what was normal 50 years before would seem compeltely out of place 50 years later. We are already seeing in some areas that the car’s myth …